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Royal Bank of Scotland has announced the relaunch of its business credit card aimed at start ups and smaller SMEs, with the bank now offering the card free of charge for the first year, to all new customers. The lender has also reduced the ongoing annual fee on the Royal Bank Business card to £

World record-holding cyclist Mark Beaumont is to address next week’s Investing Women conference in Edinburgh. The Scot holds the record for cycling round the world, set in 2017 when he completed his 18,000-mile route in under 79 days.

A 40-year-old man whose parents allegedly binned his pornography collection, worth tens of thousands of pounds, has launched a court case against them. He had previously reported his parents to the police, but prosecutors in the US state of Indiana declined to press charges.

TSB has today announced a UK banking first, a Fraud Refund Guarantee, to ensure the bank’s 5.2 million customers are protected if they are an innocent victim of fraud – whether it’s unauthorised transactions on their accounts or customers tricked into authorising payments to frauds

Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM has appointed Michael McAllister as its regional head of payroll outsourcing, in a moved brokered by HRC Recruitment. In the newly-created role, Mr McAllister joins RSM Employer Services Limited to lead the firm’s payroll services offering at its centres of e

ESPL Regulatory Consulting (ESPL), which provides specialist regulatory services to the life sciences and pharmaceutical / medical device industries, has become the latest company in Scotland to be employee-owned.  Ownership of ESPL has transferred from the Erwood family to a trust for the bene

It seems workers in Scotland are beating the bosses when it comes to running a business after new research revealed that revenues at employee-owned firms are outstripping that at their traditionally-structured peers.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has announced former Royal Bank of Scotland executive Caroline Rainbird as its new chief executive. Ms Rainbird will replace Mark Neale when she assumes her new role at the FSCS on 3 May following her predecessor's departure.

A former professional rugby player has secured funding from Barclays to support the expansion of his removals and storage business. With a £100,000 lending package from Barclays, business owner Neil Adam Sinclair hopes to triple the self-storage capabilities of Sterling Sinclair Removals to 35

In the decade since first Debt Relief Order (DRO) was approved in 2009, £2.3 billion of debt relief has been granted helping more than a quarter of a million people out of debt. Although never available in Scotland, the first DRO was approved 10 years ago in April 2009 with the aim of ass

Business Gateway services provider Elevator has announced the finalist for the 20th edition of its prestigious annual awards.

Citizens Advice Scotland has launched a financial health check service to help low income families maximise their income. Targeted at low income families and older people, but open to everyone, the Financial Health Check aims to motivate people to seek financial advice to ensure that they

A court has ordered the owner of a €57m (£49m) chateau in the south of France to tear it down after declaring the building illegal, The Guardian has reported. Chateau Diter, eight miles north of Cannes, began life as an abandoned country house with snake-infested grounds, before

Scottish Liberal Democrat deputy leader Alistair Carmichael has lodged a Bill in the House of Commons calling for Scottish banknotes to be accepted throughout the UK. Mr Carmichael will present his Legal Tender (Scottish Banknotes) Bill to Parliament as he bids to encourage businesses across th

Household savings in Scotland have fallen by 60 per cent since 2010.